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LeRoy McManus, Former Mercer Resident, Dies

  LeRoy M. McManus, 57, of 1817 9th St., Rock Island, died at 1:40 p.m., Tuesday March 17, 1964 at Moline Public Hospital.
  Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 8;30 a.m., at the Wheelan Funeral Home and 9:00 a.m., at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
  The Rosary will be recited at 8:00 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home, where friends may call after 11 a.m. tomorrow.
  Mr. McManus was born May 1, 1906 on a farm south of Reynolds, a son of Frank and Hermina McManus. He attended Reynolds schools and St. Ambrose Academy.
  He married Isabella Hancq Feb. 28, 1930, in Rock Island.
  Mr. McManus farmed for many years in the Reynolds, Joy and New Boston communities, and moved to Rock Island about nine years ago and had his own trucking business for several years in Rock Island.
  He was a member of St. Joseph's Church.
  Surviving are the widow; his mother, Mrs. Frank McManus of Rock Island; two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Shaffer of Aledo and Miss Patricia McManus, at home; two sons, LeRoy Jr., of Reynolds, and Michael of Joy; five grandchildren; a brother, Lawrence of Preemption and a sister. Mrs. Earl Barnes of Tucson, Ariz.
  His father and a brother preceded him in death.
(Aledo Times Record, Wednesday, March 18, 1964, p.3)

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